MAKSIMOV S.V. (1831-1901) Krylatye slova: Ne sprosta i ne spusta slovo molvitsya i do veku ne slomitsya. Po tolkovaniyu S. Maksimova [Winged Words: A Word Is Not Spoken Without Reason and Will Not Break for Ages. As Interpreted by S. Maksimov]. St Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1890.

XVI, 486 pp.; 19 cm. In Russian. In a period composite binding. Leather spine with raised bands and gilt tooling, boards covered with calico. In good condition. Wear to the binding, loss of a fragment of leather on the spine, ownership inscription on a blank endpaper. A work by the Russian writer, ethnographer, memoirist, traveller and honorary member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900) Sergei Vasilyevich Maksimov (1831-1901), explaining various words and expressions of colloquial Russian whose original meanings have been lost to most people. The folklorist’s works were frequently published both during his lifetime and after his death, and are still reprinted in large editions today.